Team Trump wants to privatise Afghanistan operations

The move to shift Afghanistan operations from the military to contractors shows the full reach of the Trump administration's core philosophy: the privatisation of everything, writes USSC research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for U.S. News and World Report.

Nicole Hemmer is an Honorary Associate at the United States Studies Centre and Assistant Professor in Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, working with the Presidential Recordings Program. She is the author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.